This is meant to serve as a condensed list of all of the important words/concepts from the article: (most of these terms/definitions have been taken straight from the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies)
Available Designs: The resources for Design, including the "grammars" of various semiotic systems: the grammars of languages, and the grammars of other semiotic systems such as film, photography, or gesture.
Burgeoning: Begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish link
Civic Pluralism: It is a place where differences are actively recognised, where these differences are negotiated in such a way that they complement each other, and where people have the chance to expand their cultural and linguistic repertoires so that they can access a broader range of cultural and institutional resources. link
Civic Spaces: changed from from the broad content of public rights and responsibilities to institutional and curricular details of literacy pedagogy
Canonical: Conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure.
Dialects: Region or age related design conventions.
Diversity: The condition of having or being composed of differing elements : variety; especially : the inclusion of different types of people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization. Link
Design: The process of shaping emergent meaning involves re-presentation and recontextualization. This is never simply a repetition of Available Designs. Every moment of meaning involves the transformation of the available resources of meaning. Reading, seeing, and listening are all instances of Designing.
Discourse: A discourse is a configuration of knowledge and its habitual forms of expression, which represents a particular set of interests
Economic Rationalism: The view that commercial activity represents a sphere of activity in which moral considerations, beyond the rule of business probity dictated by enlightened self-interest, have no role to play.
Genre: Form of text or textual organization that arises out of particular social configurations or the particular relationships of the participants in an interaction
Glass Ceiling: the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements link
Global Coherence Relations: The overall organizational properties of texts. (e.g. genres)
Global Connectedness: The need to deal with linguistic differences and cultural differences as it has become central to the pragmatics of our working, civic, and private lives.
Hybridizing: Hybridization of established ways modes of meaning (of discourses and genres), and multifarious combinations of modes of meaning cutting across boundaries of convention and creating new conventions.
Hybridity: Highlights the mechanisms of creativity and of culture-as-process particularly salient in contemporary society.
Hypermedia: An extension to hypertext that supports linking graphics, sound, and video elements in addition to text elements. (link)
Information Structures: How information is presented in clauses and sentences.
Lifeworlds: Spaces for community life where local and specific meanings can be made.
Literacy Pedagogy: Teaching and learning to read and write in page-bound, official, standard forms of the national language.
Local Coherence Relations: Cohesion between clauses, and logical relations between clauses (e.g. embedding, subordination).
Mean-Making Process: The process of how individuals make sense of knowledge, experience, relationships, and the self, must be considered in designing college curricular environments supportive of learning and development. (link)
Metalanguage: A language for talking about language, images, texts, and meaning-making interactions.
Mission of Education: Fundamental purpose is to ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community, and economic life.
Modality: The nature of the producer's commitment to the message in a clause.
Multimodal: It represents the patterns of interconnection among the other modes (linguistic design, visual design, audio design, Gestural Design, and Spatial Design).
Multiple Literacies: The multiplicity of communications channels and increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the world.
Nominalization: Using a phrase to compact a great deal of information.
Nominalization Process: Turning actions, qualities, assessments, or logical connecion into nouns or states of being (e.g., "assess" becomes "assessment"; "can" becomes ability).
Order of discourse: Structured set of conventions associated with semiotic activity (including use of language) in a given social space.
Pedagogy: A teaching and learning relationship that creates the potential for building learning conditions leading to full and equitable social participation.
Post-Fordism: The name given by some scholars to what they describe as the dominant system of economic production, consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century. (link)
Proliferation: The growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
The Public: A homogeneous imagined community of modern democratic nation states.
Redesigned: It was founded on historically and culturally received patterns of meaning. At the same time it is the unique product of human agency: a transformed meaning. And, in its turn, The Redesigned becomes a new Available Design, a new meaning-making resource.
Saliency: Prominent, conspicuous, or striking. (link)
Semiotic(s): The study of signs and symbols and how they are used. (link)
Style: Configuration of all the semiotic features in a text in which, for example, language may relate to layout and visual images.
Subjectivities: Interests, intentions, commitments, and purposes.
Symbolic capital: Symbolic meanings that have currency in access to employment, political power, and cultural recognition.
Technocracy (Technocrat): a form of government in which experts in technology would be in control of all decision making. link
Transitivity: How much agency and effect one designs into a sentence.
(most of these terms/definitions have been taken straight from the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies)
Burgeoning: Begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish link
Civic Pluralism: It is a place where differences are actively recognised, where these differences are negotiated in such a way that they complement each other, and where people have the chance to expand their cultural and linguistic repertoires so that they can access a broader range of cultural and institutional resources. link
Civic Spaces: changed from from the broad content of public rights and responsibilities to institutional and curricular details of literacy pedagogy
Canonical: Conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure.
Dialects: Region or age related design conventions.
Diversity: The condition of having or being composed of differing elements : variety; especially : the inclusion of different types of people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization. Link
Design: The process of shaping emergent meaning involves re-presentation and recontextualization. This is never simply a repetition of Available Designs. Every moment of meaning involves the transformation of the available resources of meaning. Reading, seeing, and listening are all instances of Designing.
Discourse: A discourse is a configuration of knowledge and its habitual forms of expression, which represents a particular set of interests
Economic Rationalism: The view that commercial activity represents a sphere of activity in which moral considerations, beyond the rule of business probity dictated by enlightened self-interest, have no role to play.
Genre: Form of text or textual organization that arises out of particular social configurations or the particular relationships of the participants in an interaction
Glass Ceiling: the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements link
Global Coherence Relations: The overall organizational properties of texts. (e.g. genres)
Global Connectedness: The need to deal with linguistic differences and cultural differences as it has become central to the pragmatics of our working, civic, and private lives.
Hybridizing: Hybridization of established ways modes of meaning (of discourses and genres), and multifarious combinations of modes of meaning cutting across boundaries of convention and creating new conventions.
Hybridity: Highlights the mechanisms of creativity and of culture-as-process particularly salient in contemporary society.
Hypermedia: An extension to hypertext that supports linking graphics, sound, and video elements in addition to text elements. (link)
Information Structures: How information is presented in clauses and sentences.
Lifeworlds: Spaces for community life where local and specific meanings can be made.
Literacy Pedagogy: Teaching and learning to read and write in page-bound, official, standard forms of the national language.
Local Coherence Relations: Cohesion between clauses, and logical relations between clauses (e.g. embedding, subordination).
Mean-Making Process: The process of how individuals make sense of knowledge, experience, relationships, and the self, must be considered in designing college curricular environments supportive of learning and development. (link)
Metalanguage: A language for talking about language, images, texts, and meaning-making interactions.
Mission of Education: Fundamental purpose is to ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community, and economic life.
Modality: The nature of the producer's commitment to the message in a clause.
Multimodal: It represents the patterns of interconnection among the other modes (linguistic design, visual design, audio design, Gestural Design, and Spatial Design).
Multiple Literacies: The multiplicity of communications channels and increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the world.
Nominalization: Using a phrase to compact a great deal of information.
Nominalization Process: Turning actions, qualities, assessments, or logical connecion into nouns or states of being (e.g., "assess" becomes "assessment"; "can" becomes ability).
Order of discourse: Structured set of conventions associated with semiotic activity (including use of language) in a given social space.
Pedagogy: A teaching and learning relationship that creates the potential for building learning conditions leading to full and equitable social participation.
Post-Fordism: The name given by some scholars to what they describe as the dominant system of economic production, consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century. (link)
Proliferation: The growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
The Public: A homogeneous imagined community of modern democratic nation states.
Redesigned: It was founded on historically and culturally received patterns of meaning. At the same time it is the unique product of human agency: a transformed meaning. And, in its turn, The Redesigned becomes a new Available Design, a new meaning-making resource.
Saliency: Prominent, conspicuous, or striking. (link)
Semiotic(s): The study of signs and symbols and how they are used. (link)
Style: Configuration of all the semiotic features in a text in which, for example, language may relate to layout and visual images.
Subjectivities: Interests, intentions, commitments, and purposes.
Symbolic capital: Symbolic meanings that have currency in access to employment, political power, and cultural recognition.
Technocracy (Technocrat): a form of government in which experts in technology would be in control of all decision making. link
Transitivity: How much agency and effect one designs into a sentence.